Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284355)

To cripple the organ of thought is much easier than any other organ of the human body, and healing is very difficult. And later, is quite impossible. Maim - just - system "unnatural" "exercises". And one of the most "correct" way to do this mutilation of the brain and the intellect is the formal learning of knowledge. This made the "stupid" people, i.e. people with atrophied sense of judgment. People who are not able to correctly relate that they have assimilated General knowledge with reality, because the fact of the matter is getting trapped.
"Cramming", supported by endless "repetition" (which should be called not mother, but rather the stepmother of learning), cripples the brain and the intellect rather than, paradoxically, fairer and smarter by themselves, digest the truth. The fact that foolish and absurd idea out of my head of a child quickly erode his own experience; the collision of these ideas with the facts will cause him to doubt, to compare, to ask "why?" and generally "loaf". "Absolute" truth is never such a reason will not provide. Absolutes of any kind is generally contraindicated for any "wiggling" - they are stationary and only crave more and more "evidence" of their infallibility. So jagged without an understanding of "absolute truth" and becomes for the brain something like a rail for trains, some sort of shore for hardworking horses. The brain gets used to move only the beaten (other brains) tracks. All that lies to the right and to the left of them, it is not interested. For the rest it just does not pay the attention as "irrelevant" and "uninteresting". It meant a great German writer B. Brecht, saying that "the person that two and two make four, of course, will never become a great mathematician"...